Memorials to the Dead: A Journey into England’s Most Unusual Graves

About this book

Kate Cherrell visits unusual graves across England to explore the lives, customs and acts of remembrance behind them. The illustrated journey includes unconventional monuments, performers’ memorials and surprising stories preserved in stone. Bringing together cemetery history and the culture of mourning, the book considers how individual lives continue to be represented, celebrated and sometimes misunderstood through the memorials left behind.